Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Story of Her Life

HARRIET was between twelve and thirteen when
she came to Hartford, Connecticut, to attend a
school recently established by her sister Catherine. The schoolroom was over a harness store,
which, after the fashion of the day, had for a sign
two white horses. Great was the surprise and
pleasure with which Harriet gazed upon this triumph of artistic skill as it then appeared to her.
One of the young men who worked in the harness
shop in the rear of the store had a fine tenor
voice, and often delighted her by singing in school
hours: --

"When in cold oblivion's shade,
Beauty, wealth, and power are laid,
When around the sculptured shrine,
Moss shall cling, and ivy twine
Where immortal spirits reign,
There shall we all meet again."

The expense of her board was provided for by
a kind of exchange common in those days. Mr.

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